14.8.39.

Warm & fine. Damsons (such as there are) almost ripe. Finished getting ground ready for greens. At last found the lost hen, which was sitting on 13 eggs. She has been gone just a month. Altogether 6 broodies now (out of 23 hens). Put them all in E’s cage this afternoon. Yesterday with great difficulty we weighed a duck, &, if we were not wrong, it was about 33/4lb (61/2 weeks). So we are going to send the 2 biggest to market to see what they fetch.
10 eggs (3 small).
Cwt. Full-o-Pep gave out today. Started on 4.7.39 – about 40 days. Should have been 35, so perhaps have been underfeeding them a bit. On the other hand in warm weather they often don’t eat all they are given.
Saw a cuckoo this morning. They have been silent for some time & are about due to leave. Found a dead shrew mouse on the road. I do not know why, one always finds them dead about this time of year.